Vehicle-seat and lock therefor.



' w. MILLER. vEmcLE' SEAT AND LOCK THEREFOR.

"APPLICATION FILED DEC. 27, 1910.

1,007,041 Patented 0012.24, 1911.

UNITED sTA'rns "PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM MILLER, OF .AMESBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM E. IBIDDLE AND ROBERT H. HILLS, A COPARTNERSHIP DOING BUSINESSUNDER THE NAME OF AMESBURY BRASS & FOUNDRY COMPANY, OF AMESBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

VEHICLE-SEAT A NIJ LOCK THEREFOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 24, 1911 Application filed December 27, 1910. Serial No. 599,624.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lVILLIAM MI LER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Amesbury, in the county of Essex and State of lolassachusetts, have invented an improvement in Vehicle Seats and Locks T herefor, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings,'is a spccilieatirm, like letters on the drawings re n'csenting like parts.

This invention relates to vehicle seats and locking devices therefor, and while it obviously has other and general fields of usefulness, especially directed to improvements in auxiliary seats for automobiles. I

In the larger automobiles. as limousines. landaulets and touring cars, it is customary to provide in addition to the main fixed transverse seats, one or more auxiliary seats usually fixed to the side of the vehicle to provide additional carrying capacity.

One of the prime objects is to produce an auxiliary seat with a lock which will hold the same firmly and rigidly when the seat is in lowered position for use, the lock being in a position so as to be not then liable to casual or accidental disengagement but being in such a position that when the seat is raised it is convenient for manipulation.

The invention will be understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein a preferred embodiment thereof is illustrated.

In the drawings, Figure 1. is a front elevation of the improved seat with the locking attachment and its support; Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof; l-ig. 3 is a vertical section of the base portion, partly in elevation; and Fig. t is a plan view of the seat.

A support 1 suitably formed to be firmly secured to the side of the automobile body, usually in oblique position, carries a bracket base 3 for the seat, these parts being removably interengaged by a bayonet or tapered dovetail lip joint 3 as shown. The bracket base 2 has an upstanding journal stud t on which is pivoted the s at frame. 5, these parts being held in lheir assembled jonrnaled relation by a screw bolt (i. This scat frame has a backwardly curved upstanding projection 7 to carry one side ol the seat, and a transverse horizontal ribbed arm 8 extending nearly the full width ol the seat and having at its outer end a backwardly curved upthese a lock 18 pivoted to the arm 8 at 19 is adapted to engage, and when so engaged is held in locking position bya spring 20; the notch 17 as shown cooperating to hold the seat intransverse position for use, and the notch 16 receiving the lock 18 when the seat is turned around alongside the vehicle body to be out of the way. The lock 18 is formed as an L-shapod member, and its handle por tion 21 extends along underneath the arin 8 so as to be in position for convenient Inanipulation and at the same time protected from injury.

it is to be observed that by reason of the baeluvard incline of the seat-holding projections 7. l), the pivots 13 of the seat are at some little distance back of the strong ribbed arm 8 upon which the seat rests, as shown at. 22 some distance forward of the pivots. The ribbed arm 8 therefore serves a three-fold purpose of a carrier for the outer whole construction as set forth forms a. support for the seat when lowered, and a carrier and protector for the lock 18. The whole construction as set forth forms a strong reliable auxiliary seat, while the locking device is in a particularly convenientand readily accessible position and at the same time so located that it is not apt to receive accidental injury.

The arrangement of the lock pivoted on the arm 8 near the back of the seat and with its operating handle extending out toward the transverseccnter ol the seat, provides a construction whereby the lock is socured from casual or accidental disengagement when the seat is in lowered position, the handle then being in a position where it can be gotten at only with great ditliculty; thus the seat trame'is held rigidly and with certainty in its transverse position for use when the seat is lowered. On the other hand, when the seat is swung up to its vertical inoperative position, the locking handle 21 in iosition Where it can be gotten at with facility to unlock the seat frame and enable it to be turned around sidewise with 5 the car.

Having described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,--

1. A vehicle seat, comprising a base adaptg ed to be secured to the side of a vehicle with porting arm extending from said connection, a seat hinged to said frame, and means for locking said frame in different angular ositions to said base, said means consisting 111 a member having spaced apart recesses carried by said base and a lock cooperative with a selective one of said recesses, said lock being pivoted adjacent the junction of said horizontal arm with said vertical connection and extending thence downward to engage one 01" said recesses with. a handle extending in the other direction along under the horizontal supporting arm of said frame.

- a seat frame composed of a member formed with vertical journal connection for fitting said base and with a horizontal seat supporting arm extending from said connection,

a seat hinged to said frame; and means for locking said frame in difl'erent angular positions to said base, said means consisting in a notched flange formed with said base and a substantially L-shaped locking RWBI pivoted adjacent the junction of said seat supporting arm with said journal connection and extending thence in one direction down ward to engage a notch in said flange, and in the other direction. along underneath said horizontal seat supporting arm with a spring interposed to normally hold the parts in looking engagement.

In testimony whereof, l[ have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

- WILLIAM MILLER.

Witnesses:

MABEL F. WHITE, LENA C. MonnILL. 

